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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.6, including several
   security-related issues.
   For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
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>Disallow <TT
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>LOAD</TT
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>On platforms that will automatically execute initialization functions of a
shared library (this includes at least Windows and ELF-based Unixen),
<TT
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Thanks to NGS Software for reporting this.</P
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>Check that creator of an aggregate function has the right to
execute the specified transition functions</P
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>This oversight made it possible to bypass denial of EXECUTE
permission on a function.</P
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>Fix security and 64-bit issues in
contrib/intagg</P
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>Add needed STRICT marking to some contrib functions (Kris
Jurka)</P
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>Avoid buffer overrun when plpgsql cursor declaration has too
many parameters (Neil)</P
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>Fix planning error for FULL and RIGHT outer joins</P
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>The result of the join was mistakenly supposed to be sorted the same as the
left input.  This could not only deliver mis-sorted output to the user, but
in case of nested merge joins could give outright wrong answers.</P
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>Fix plperl for quote marks in tuple fields</P
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>Fix display of negative intervals in SQL and GERMAN
datestyles</P
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>Make age(timestamptz) do calculation in local timezone not
GMT</P
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